cloture
基本解释
- n.讨论终结
- vt.结束辩论
英汉例句
- Under Senate rules, it takes 60 votes to invoke cloture and usher a bill to a vote.
根据参议院规定,它需要60张选票行使权利结束辩论和引导法案进入投票。 - For most of the 19th century the majority in the Senate had no way to move to “cloture”—ie, end a filibuster and force a vote.
在大部分的十九世纪中,参议院的多数党没有任何方法可以”终结一个辩论(cloture)”—也就是终止对手以不停发言来阻扰法案的手段(filibuster)并对法案作强制表决。 - It was Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut who announced the results of the cloture vote.
- But the cloture vote did show that more than 50 percent of senators favor rebuking Gonzales.
NPR: Republicans Block No-Confidence Vote on Gonzales - You guys went ahead -- you went through two or three I think cloture votes.
WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing - The Republican leader insists that Senator Reid file cloture, which starts a 30-hour clock.
WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefings
双语例句
原声例句
权威例句
英英字典
- a process for ending a debate (= formal discussion) in a governing group so there can be a vote
- closure in the US Senate
- to end (debate) in the US Senate by cloture